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Re:Think Twice Before Ordering Coffee or Tea on a Plane by tajen on Friday June 23, 2017 @12:54PM (#14620646)
What! Companies still use manned cockpits nowadays? It's a bit like letting a guy into the server room: Pilot error is the cause of 75%[1] plane crashes (Of course I'm kidding, the pilot is probably the cause of non-crashing 99.99992% [2] of the flights).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_error

[2] https://curiosity.com/topics/how-do-people-survive-plane-cra...

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Re:Think Twice Before Ordering Coffee or Tea on a Plane by smsm42 on Saturday June 24, 2017 @01:59AM (#14624547)
71% of all traffic fatalities are because of sober drivers!
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